Pure by Andrew Miller
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD (2011) A year of bones, of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too. Of desire. Of love... A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.
His recreation of pre-Revolutionary Paris is extraordinarily vivid and imaginative, and his story is so gripping that you'll put your life on hold to finish it * The Times *
Enthralling.. superbly researched, brilliantly narrated and movingly resolved * Observer *
Exquisite inside and out, PURE is a near-faultless thing * Sunday Telegraph *
It draws you in with hallucinatory power * Daily Mail *
Superb * Literary Review *
Dazzling * Guardian *
Enthralling.. superbly researched, brilliantly narrated and movingly resolved * Observer *
Exquisite inside and out, PURE is a near-faultless thing * Sunday Telegraph *
It draws you in with hallucinatory power * Daily Mail *
Superb * Literary Review *
Dazzling * Guardian *
Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997 and greeted as the debut of an outstanding new writer. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like A Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011, and The Crossing. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781444724257 |
| ISBN 10 | 1444724258 |
| Title | Pure |
| Author | Andrew Miller |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2011-06-09 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Winner of Costa Book of the Year 2011, Winner of Costa Novel Award 2011 |
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